Jean-Paul Bailly, chairman of the French post office, La Poste, said on Saturday that his organisation expects to show a consolidated net profit of around €100m for 2003. La Poste returned to profit last year with a positive net result of €34m. Mr Bailly also confirmed that La Poste’s modernisation programme will involve natural wastage but not redundancies.
Read MoreIn order to secure the future existence of Taxipost in the competitive Belgian express and parcels market, the management board of the Belgian Post Group has changed the structure of its express arm from a business unit into a subsidiary. With the change of legal status, Taxipost will be in a stronger position to compete with the other privately-owned market players by attracting potential private partners. In addition, this will increase the transparency in terms of potential cross-subsidisation. This decision was taken following the approval from the EC for the recapitalisation of La Poste/De Post.
Read MoreThe Universal Postal Union has said it is working with leading postal services to promote an electronic postmark that would facilitate electronic transactions and guarantee their security.
Called the Electronic PostMark, the service applies a time-and-date seal to an electronic document, validates digital signatures and stores and archives all data needed to support a potential court challenge.
Currently used by postal services in Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Portugal and the United States, the Electronic PostMark is the digital equivalent of the indicia that appear on every stamped envelope and has legally binding implications in matters of mail tampering.
Read MoreLa Poste and Claritas have reached an agreement enabling La Poste access to Claritas new mailing lists which are updated from surveys sent to magazine subscribers. Claritas mailin lists comprise 1 million addresses and yeield an annual turnover of EUR 22 million. La Poste deliver 8 billion items of unaddressed mail each year and has a market share of 32% covering 25.5 million households.
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Neopost – Europe’s leading supplier of mailing solutions and logistics systems -and GeoPost – a holding company for the French and European parcels subsidiaries of La Poste – have signed an agreement under which Neopost will
supply its Cyberstation© system to GeoPost’s operational units (Chronopost
International, DPD, Tat Express etc.). The system has been developed by Neopost Logistics Systems, and the first service to use it is Chronopost International’s ChronoShip OnLine. Cyberstation© will enable customers of GeoPost’s operational units to prepare shipments, print the corresponding consignment notes and manage their address book over the Internet.
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